I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
JERRY GARCIAI’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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